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Shortlists for job interviews, election ballot papers, lists of conference speakers and attendees: all tend to be drawn up alphabetically, and their recipients lose interest as they plough through them.
译文:求职面试、选举投票、会议发言和出席的名单,也是按字母表顺序排序,当人们费劲地向下查看时,往往会逐渐失去兴趣。
点睛:句子的主干是由and连接的两个并列分句:...all tend to be drawn up,and their recipients lose interest...。第一个分句中,主语all指句首出现的三个并列的名词短语,它们是all的同位语。第二个分句中包含了一个由a引导的时间状语从句as they plough through them.ballot意为“投票;选票”,可作名词和动词。attendee意为“出席者,在场者”。plough through意为“费劲地阅读,吃力地钻研,艰难地通过”。
We've ploughed through all the documents related to the case。
我们费力地阅读了所有有关此案的文件。
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